Interesting Facts

A study carried out for National Family Week, which takes place from the 30th of May till the 5th of June, found that parents need to send at least 600 texts, 312 emails and spend more than 1500 minutes on the phone every year just to keep track of their offspring. (The report also found that 20 per cent of parents said that social networking websites like Facebook were the best place to find out what their off springs were doing. Or maybe it's only what they want you to think they are really doing.) Source

According to a survey by Ofcom (The Office of Communications) in 2009, radio is the most trusted source of news in the UK. (66% of people considered news reports on the radio to be reliable compared with 58% for news websites, 54% for TV and just 34% for newspapers. If you've ever read a British newspaper, you'll understand why they rate so badly.)

If you want to set up a website in China, you will have to submit identity cards and a photo of yourself, as well as meet regulators, before your domain name can be registered. (In some ways it's similar in Germany, you can't register a .de domain unless you have a German bank account. That said, I guess I won't be setting up learnenglish.cn any time soon.)

There were 61 billion web searches made in August. (Google powered 37 billion, more than half and more than all the other major search engines combined.)

Web users on the internet, make their judgements about websites within a twentieth of a second of first seeing it. (Oh dear. I'm in trouble.)